L-band Router

At ETL an L-band Router is known as an L-band Matrix. We are aware that many of our customers use the term L-band Router and therefore to view our full range of L-band Routers and L-band Matrices please visit our L-band Matrix page.

ETL has a broad L-band Router and L-band Matrix range for Satellite communications, including the hot-swap NiGMa L-band Router which is used for many high resilience high performance applications.

Now in its 3rd generation, the NiGMa L-band Router has proved to be genuinely high performance with excellent flatness or frequency response, excellent isolation, and linearity - a truly leading edge L-band Router.

The NiGMa L-band Router has hot swap of all active components - RF cards, CPU's and PSU's. In addition the NiGMa L-band Router has the designed-in resilience provided by one RF card for each RF input and output, dual redundant CPU's, and dual redundant PSU's.

The NiGMa L-band Router also has extensive on-board monitoring - and reporting - of RF card amplifier status, CPU and PSU status and HMI communications.

The NiGMa L-band Router can easily be formed into larger router Systems up to 512x512.

Non-blocking: this means any input can be routed to any output.

In general our solid state (L-band) matrices are non-blocking.

Full Fan-out Matrix (or fully distributive or splitting matrix): any input can be routed to any output. One input can be routed to many outputs. Each output can only have one input. Tends to be more RX.

Full Fan-in Matrix (or fully combining matrix): any input can be routed to any output. Many inputs can be routed to each output. Each input can only be routed to one output. Tends to be more TX.